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Folks still want Lake Park’s Ravine Road reopened to bicycles, pedestrians only

September 19, 2023

What to do with Lake Park's long-closed Ravine Road? Reopen it to automobile traffic, like it was before it was closed in 2014? Reopen it to bicycles and pedestrians only? Some sort of compromise? Just leave it...

Atwood Hwy BBQ out at Crossroads Collective, new egg roll vendor planned

Matt Wild

September 18, 2023

Keeping track of what's coming and going at East Side food hall Crossroads Collective can be challenging. Sure, turnover is the nature of the food hall beast, but the bustling dining hotspot at 2238 N. Farwell ...

Wait out Dramatic Lovers’ yearlong hiatus with new ‘Hiatus’ EP

Matt Wild

September 18, 2023

In case you missed it, one of Milwaukee's finest bands, Dramatic Lovers, is in the midst of a yearlong hiatus. Why? Because singer-songwriter William "B.J." Seidel is off seeing the world. Good for him! Good...

Buffalo Nichols updates the blues (and returns to Milwaukee) on ‘The Fatalist’

Matt Wild

September 15, 2023

"Drum machines are a 50-year-old technology. If the blues hadn't been hijacked and trapped in amber, I think they naturally would've been incorporated." That's Milwaukee musician Carl Nichols—a.k.a. Buffalo ...

‘Stop Making Sense,’ Jerry Harrison will return to Oriental Theatre this fall

Matt Wild

September 14, 2023

It's a testament to how spoiled we are in Milwaukee that, when you receive a press release announcing that the 1984 Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense will screen at the Oriental Theatre, and that Tal...

Adam Sandler will bring his “I Missed You Tour” to Fiserv Forum November 11

Matt Wild

September 13, 2023

You know what's great? Adam Sandler. (Your mileage may vary.) You know what else is great? Seeing Adam Sandler when he brings his "I Missed You Tour" to Milwaukee's Fiserv Form on Saturday, November 11. Oh, and...

Olivia Rodrigo will play Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum March 16, 2024

Matt Wild

September 13, 2023

As part of her just-announced GUTS world tour, Olivia Rodrigo will play Milwaukee's Fiserv Forum on Saturday March 16, 2024. Chappell Roan will play in support. Wow! So that's it! Here's all the convoluted t...

Demolition? Build something new? Here are the 4 options for the future of the Mitchell Park Domes

Matt Wild

September 12, 2023

After seven years, multiple task forces, and more than half a million dollars in studies, Milwaukee County has finally been given four concrete options for the future of the beleaguered Mitchell Park Domes. Thi...

19 photos of the closed, overgrown Ravine Road in Lake Park (before they do something with it)

Matt Wild

September 12, 2023

The future of Ravine Road in Lake Park may not be the city's most pressing issue, but because it involves A.) people who like cars, B.) people who like bicycles, and C.) people with lots of money, it has all th...

Bug Moment takes a (bad) trip to the Flying Toad Circus in “Lagoon” and “Carousel” video

Matt Wild

September 12, 2023

In the six months that "emo-adjacent rock melancholia" Milwaukee band Bug Moment released its stellar second record, The Flying Toad Circus, the group has rocketed to the top of the city's music scene. Sold-out...

In case you blinked, here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (August 27 – September 9)

Matt Wild

September 11, 2023

Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." Or maybe it's a "reboot" or a "reimagining." However you want to define it, it's safe to say tha...

Here’s the film lineup for the 2023 Cultures & Communities Festival

Matt Wild

September 11, 2023

From Thursday October 5 through Thursday, October 12, Milwaukee Film's 2023 Cultures & Communities Festival will take over the Oriental Theatre—and much of the city itself. The "eight-day convergence of ...

Gordon Gano sets Lawrencia Bembenek saga to music in Milwaukee Rep’s ‘Run Bambi Run’

Matt Wild

September 7, 2023

If you're looking to sum up the zeitgeist of '80s Milwaukee, look no further than the Violent Femmes and Lawrencia "Bambi" Bembenek. The legendary folk-punk group formed in 1981 and were famously "discovered...

Milwaukee wants to redevelop Marcus Center Parking Garage, depriving city of iconic landmark

Matt Wild

September 6, 2023

When you think of Downtown Milwaukee, what do you think of? You think of the Milwaukee Art Museum. You think of the Milwaukee Public Market. And, of course, you think of the Marcus Center Parking Garage Snow Pi...

Woof! Brady Street Pet Parade will return October 8

Matt Wild

September 5, 2023

Attention, four-legged creatures and the two-legged creatures who love them: The beloved Brady Street Pet Parade will return to the bustling East Side street on Sunday, October 8. Dogs, cats, pigs, ferrets, rat...

Snag finds hope amidst chaos in “On The Human Condition” video

Matt Wild

September 5, 2023

It's a real "gestures broadly at everything" time in human history. Not a day—hell, not an hour—seems to go by without a new horror or crisis shattering what's left of our collective psyche. For Milwaukee clima...

“It’s been a good run.” After two decades, Riverwest club Circle-A will close in early October

Matt Wild

August 31, 2023

You can cram a lot of Milwaukee music memories into a small space. For 22 years, Circle-A Cafe, located at 932 E. Chambers St. in the city's Riverwest neighborhood, has served as an intimate and quirky venue...

Help Milwaukee filmmaker Frankie Latina fund his third feature, ‘Skinny Dip’

Matt Wild

August 29, 2023

Back in 2009, Milwaukee enfant terrible filmmaker Frankie Latina made a splash with Modus Operandi, a delightfully sleazy, Z-grade exploitation flick co-produced by Sasha Grey and starring Danny Trejo. It was t...

In case you blinked, here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (August 13-26)

Matt Wild

August 28, 2023

Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." Or maybe it's a "reboot" or a "reimagining." However you want to define it, it's safe to say tha...

Good luck getting the debut record from punk-rock trio Jinksie out of your head

Matt Wild

August 28, 2023

Less than halfway through the debut record from Milwaukee punk-rock trio Jinksie, singer-guitarist Wendy Norton and singer-bassist Amelinda Burich shout out what could be either a sentiment of kinship or a veil...

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